1 86 SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ^EQUALIS. 
Echioides, Ox^s "Tongue with cups furrounded with z 
large involucriun. An. July., Aug. 
liieracioides. Tellow Succory., or Rough Hawkweed with 
imbricated cups. An. July. 
S O N C H U S. Sow-thistle.' 
The common cup is gibbons with rq^ny linear, un- 
equal Icales. The compound flower is imbricated and 
uniform, the fmall hermaphrodite flowers are numerous 
and equal. The proper flower is monopetalous, ligu- 
lated, linear, truncated, and quinquedentared. There 
are five capillary and very fliort itamina, with a cylin- 
draceous, tubulofe anthera. The germen is fub-ovate, 
the feyle like thread, of the length of the fbamina, hav- 
ing tv/o reflex ftigmata. The cup is the feed veflel 
which is connivent in the form of a deprelTed, acumina- 
ted globe, containing folitary, oblong ieeds. 1 he pap- 
pus is hairy. 
Okraceus. Common Sow-TAftle with downy pedun- 
cles and rough cups. 1 found it in company with John 
Benson, Efq. and others among the ruins of Furnefs 
Abbey. In rough uncultivated places. An. June— 
Aug. 
Arvcnfis. Iree Sow Thiftle with prickly peduncles 
and cups which are lomewhat in an umbel, and heart- 
Ihaped leaves towards the bafe. Fer. Aug. 
Palufms., Marjli Sow Thijile with prickly peduncles 
and cups v/hich are fomewhat in an umbel, and the 
leaves ihaped like an arrow at the bafe. Found on the 
banks of the river Thames, not far from Greenwich and 
about Blackwall. R. Sy. Per. Aug. 
L A C T U C A. Lettuce. 
The common cup is imbricated and fomiewhat cylin- 
drical, with many acumdnated valves. The compound 
flower is imbricated and uniforfti, the hermaphrodite flo- 
rets are many and equal. The proper flower is mono- 
petalous, 
